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**MicoSiru** · 01-11-2012, 07:40 AM

Cars are not devices whose primary use is to hurt and kill.

I may be a bit off on my statistics, since I haven't researched them in a while, but last I heard there were actually more firearms in the u.s. than automobiles. So why is it that a device whose primary use is NOT to hurt people is killing more people when there are fewer of them in the U.S.? If guns are for killing, and cars aren't, you'd expect having a greater number of guns would mean a whole lot more firearm related deaths than automobile related deaths.

The last time I saw someone make that argument was probably a couple years back. They linked statistics showing that vehicles killed something like 40,000 people and guns only killed around 10,000.

01-11-2012, 07:40 AM	#6
MicoSiru Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 487 Senior Member	Cars are not devices whose primary use is to hurt and kill. I may be a bit off on my statistics, since I haven't researched them in a while, but last I heard there were actually more firearms in the u.s. than automobiles. So why is it that a device whose primary use is NOT to hurt people is killing more people when there are fewer of them in the U.S.? If guns are for killing, and cars aren't, you'd expect having a greater number of guns would mean a whole lot more firearm related deaths than automobile related deaths. The last time I saw someone make that argument was probably a couple years back. They linked statistics showing that vehicles killed something like 40,000 people and guns only killed around 10,000.
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